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Thousands of children working in Malawi’s tobacco fields are absorbing 50 cigarettes worth of nicotine a day, a rights organisation has warned.
Children near a tobacco storage shed west of capital Lilongwe
The kids experienced an array of...
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Conspicuous by its absence was India. Was India not on his radar? Or was it such a close ally that he skipped naming it at a public function? It left New Delhi...
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For millions of children in India, childhood is an elusive dream, as a UN report has revealed that 5,000 children below five die every day.
It may be a shocking...
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Shunted out after his leadership came under fire in the fight against the 26/11 attackers, former Mumbai Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor has broken his silence only to...
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Is India shining? Give me a break!
This piece of article is an un-well thought of thoughts that keep flashing in my mind. I am deeply concerned about a country that I...
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Thackeray stance” over the last few weeks. Armed with clubs and hockey sticks, the Sena men assaulted the channel’s editorial team,including its head,...
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Perhaps it’s a case of life imitating bad art. In this year’s mirthless Hollywood comedy Couples Retreat: Return to Eden, eight Americans attempt to...
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Two Chicago men accused of developing what federal prosecutors call a blueprint for a terrorist assault on a Danish newspaper also are being investigated for possible...
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SOCIETIES the world over, whatever be their stage of development, from primitive times to modern days, have never been static. Either progressive or retrogressive...
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Courtesy Fropki
A member of Fropki sent this to me...titled...Indian History by a School Boy...I lapped it up including all that non-sense!Read...
Indian History by a...
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The horrors of the Mumbai terror attack are back to haunt us as we remember that night next week after one year. After one year, very less seems to have changed. The...
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Being a celebrity is not a cakewalk, especially not in present scenario. I used to envy them for their fame, name and of course money, lots and lots of it so that they...
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10th World Congress of World association of Psycho social rehabilitation(WAPR)
The 10th World congress of World Association for Psycho social rehabilitation was held...
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The UNFPA report shows that literacy ratio in Pakistan’s male population of age group above 15 years stands at 32% as against India’s 23% while for the female...
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Incredible India: A land of Broken Laws, Religion hypocrisy, Gutter politics and Bigger contradiction. Our beaurocracy is one of the worst in world so no wonder when we...
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Today is the 282th Birhday of Jaipur. Forts, palaces, architectural marvels and tales of valour, all in their own way, bear testimony to the glory that Jaipur is and...
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It was indeed shameful to see someone like Sachin Tendulkar being verbally attacked by Bal Thackeray. What Sachin said in his statement is something that any rational...
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Now a new verdict is given to the women on their way of working .On 17th November, a top Indian Air Force Official said women may become fighter pilots provided they do...
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I am absolutely delighted at the statement of Rahul. So I believe that many Indians would feel as I do. He is very modest and when he says that any one can become Prime...
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..........sugar cane growers of U.P. are in for trouble again this year. They have started agitation in Delhi with the help of a few politicians. I think nothing would...
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This happened in a Government Hospital in Karnataka. Mothers are crying with the dead body of their 1-4 days old babies. Leakage in central oxygen system in this...
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We all say that child labour is a crime? No doubt that it is a crime, its a shame on us that we force innocent children as labours, we recurrently say that our first...
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Caroline Mbewe, 14, would prefer to be in school, but instead is a domestic worker for an affluent family in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe.
“My bosses treat...
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This picture of two boys who are lifting brikes on their head. What is it showing to us the strength of both of them that they can lift heavy weight on their head or is...
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The above headlines are not coming for the first time nor this is the end of it. Every year numerous illegal firecracker factories mushroom in the one room of any...
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This week there has been a huge row again about a major UK clothing chain using child labour in India. I have a problem with this. It is not possible to judge the...
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Thursday June 12th, was a day to remember children in bondage of labour to earn an extra buck in a home or to feed their siblings. This is very common in the developing...
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While the country holds Olympics in 2008, real problems brought out with media help exposes the country’s vulnerability to meet equal economic development.
The...
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Despite laws prohibiting child labour, with overwhelming poverty in the country the Indian government appears to be helpless in eliminating child labour in the country....
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India has a dubious distinction of fostering the highest number of child labour in the world. The great challenge for a developing country like India is to provide...
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India has a 22-year-old law that prohibits child labour in the country but still several incidents of alleged child labour come to light on a regular basis from almost...
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India is heading towards becoming a economic super power with its ever growing economy. Yesterday the sensex reached a new high of 14, 664 points. The PM and his...
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The recent media attention on Anti Child Labour Day as a ritual and event forces to reflect on the last years announcement by ministry of labour bringing in residential...
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Let us see all that the country has done to eradicate child labour.
The Indian Constitution has defined the right to free and compulsory education to all children...
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Ever since we became independent, we stood to fight against child labour. Even Article 24 of our Constitution prohibits employment of children under 14 years in...
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Today is Children’s day and today is the birth anniversary of Independent India’s first Prime Minister, Jawahar Lal Nehru too.
Everyone knows that because...
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India is a home to 19 percent of world’s children. The country is a story of stark contrasts and striking disparities as illustrated in a study of 43 focal...
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An average price for a child worker in Hyderabad is $152 a year. Maximum number of child workers comes to Delhi from Bihar to earn good wages.
These children often...
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